I don't know, but their flight would mostly likely have been AKL SIN 2355 0645 SQ282. If they had gotten Emirates EK433 6:00p 6:30p AKL BNE connecting with EK433 8:00p 130a then Ty/Aja would have easily made 3K595 at 6am SIN REP, which they clelarly did not.

I am thinking that the pitstop checkin times were about 12pm to 1pm for all teams; the thing that's hard to gauge is the tranportation time between the tasks, which tends in the Delhi area to be more significant a factor than task completion times. If so, then the first 3 teams after a 12 hour pitstop chould be able to get the last combination shown above through Moscow. Memory tells me that teams are obligated to visit a travel agency for international flight tickets before they will be allowed into the airport. If they are quick enough at the travel agency, Nick/Starr, Toni/Dallas and Terence/Sarah will be able to get to Almaty by 445pm. If not, the next flight gets teams in at 540pm 55 minutes later.

Nick/Starr, Toni/Dallas and Ken/TinaDelhi to Frankfurt on LH761: 0225-0710Frankfurt to Almaty on LH648: 1320-2350

Dan/AndrewDelhi to Dubai on EK513: 0415-0630Dubai to Almaty on KC898: 2255-0515(This second flight works on Fridays, but not Thursdays. Pit Start is therefore Thursday night, 8th May. Extended Pit Stop alert!)

Terence/SarahDelhi to Moscow on SU536: 0430-0930Moscow to Almaty: No idea on this. I've only got Air Astana and Transaero going this route, but nothing on the schedule fits. Ideas?

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So what were the teams doing on inferior flights? Were all seat taken on the good ones?

Let's start with my best one, IC897 0745 0945 DEL DXB connecting in Dubai with KC896 1120 1740 DBX ALA. Andrew and Dan were left to go through Dubai They went on EK513 DEL DXB 0514 0630, so they were in dubai with plenty of time for that connection. That should have landed them in first place. What happened? There are 3 possible answers that I can think of. Either KC896 was fully booked or a flight booker screwed up by not knowing about it or KC896 does not fly when teams are arriving to Kazakhstan. I checked on the last possibility and that cannot be it, because KC896 flies every day of the week. There is ample connect time in Dubai and at least one alternative flight to Dubai. I think that the teams were so anxious to get going they worried about leaving first and failed to check on what connecting flight arrives first.

DEL SVO SU534 0215 0615 connecting to SVO ALA KC872 0920 1645

This was one of my alternates and also a route actually used by teams. However, they arrived at 0110+1 when they could have been in Almaty 8.5 hours earlier. What Terence/Sarah took was either SU534 above or SU536 0500 0900 DEL SVO. If the latter, then they just miss the connection for KC872 above. They then had KC876 2200 0525+1, which puts them in at daylight but does not match the 0110 arrival time stated on ep. 8. I cannot match that.

I had no route through Frankfurt. The episode stated that 3 teams leave on Lufthansa 1320 and arrive in Almaty 2355.My best FRA routing is LA761 0305 0650 connecting with LH648 1300 0030+1. I have no idea how LH1320 fits into the picture.

All of this would be irrelevant except that teams going through Dubai and arriving at 1740 or through Moscow and arriving 1630 would have been able to just finish the chicken farm task before Hours of Operation there through 2000 ended.

EDITOR's NOTE - I have now fingured out teth Lufthansa situation better due to screencaps provided by puddin. There is no LH1320. The departure time for LH648 was 13:20 (120pm), slightly behind when I reported it leaving. SU536 is also listed on one of those screencaps. It listed the departure time was 0450, which was close to my 0500.

Sorry, Neobie, I worked on post #205 above for over an hour and did not look for any other posts in the interim. I doubt that would have changed my mind about the insights I attempted to provide if I had known.

I agree with you and with Chateau that instead of releasing from Delhi on May 7 late evening they did so after a 36 hours extended pitstop the evening of May 8. That makes the Kazakhstan episode on May 9 and departure for and arrival in Moscow on May 10, when we know it is supposed to be.

tasks in Salvador; then Hours of Operation(sleeping in a tent at an army base to await staggered transportation)

4/23 tasks in Salvador

4/24 We know the elevator task in Salvador is this morning followed soon after by a pitstop.

4/25 leg 2, choices of flight from Salvador to Fortaleza was:SSA FOR G31642 0645 0945followed by tasks in Fortzaleza that are complete around 1pm or slightly later; 36 Hour extended pitstop in Fortaleza ends 4/27 from about 1am to about a half hour later

5/2 leg 4Teams do tasks on the North Island of New Zealand from 4am until pitstop checkin from 1030am until about 7pm.

5/3 and 5/4, leg 5Teams return with a 2 hour drive to Auckland International Airport and fly out in multiple bunches from early afternoon until midnight. Choices of routes from AKL to REP (Siem Reap) are:

Choice of this nonstop flights from BKK to DEL:IC854 BKK DEL 1330 1615

arrival into downtown Delhi would be around 1800.

5/7Delhi tasks and start of pitstop(either 12 or 36 hour)

5/8 or 5/9 leg 7 begins, Delhi area tasks;pitstop (either 36 or 12 hour, the opposite of the length of the 5/7 pitstop)

5/9 leg 8 begins in the afternoon; Delhi to Almaty Kazakhstan there were 3 different routes chosen, inexplicable to me based on what should have been an easy connection through Dubai that would have arrived at 1630:Nick/Starr, Toni/Dallas and Ken/TinaDEL FRA LH761 0225 0710 connects FRA ALA LH648 1320 2350

For any teams who are too late (due to retrieval of lost documents or due to not having enough money for the taxi ride) to make the 0705 flight, then the next best alternative is the combinationKL3105 SVO AMS 1010 1200 connecting with KL6033 AMS SEA KL8067 1315 1435 connecting with SEA PDX 1600 1650

The connections on this flight are reasonably tight, so there is no possiblity of any other flights on the same routes to shave time. It starts 3 hours after LH3189 and it has one more connection, causing on-time arrival in Portland to be 5.5 hours behind LH648.